The council of the northeast Estonian border city Narva on Thursday expressed no confidence in the Centrist mayor Eduard East, citing the mayor's inability to organize the work of the city government and financial irregularities.
Narva council brings down mayor in confidence vote
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East said the actual reason why one had come up with the no confidence motion was problems between individuals, which should be solved by means of speaking eye to eye, not in the council hall.
«The real reason why I was brought down was personal annoyance and mercantile interests,» East told BNS, declining to give any names.
A week ago the Centrist group which used to govern Narva split in the council and the opposition filed a motion of no confidence in the mayor. The 15 councilors who split from the 21-strong group of deputies elected to the council on the Centrist list set up a new group called United Narva.
The motion of no confidence against the mayor was carried with 20 votes. The sitting was attended by 27 out of the council's 31 members.
The duties of mayor are being performed by Vice Mayor Tatjana Patsanovskaja.
The council of Narva now is made up of 15 deputies of United Narva, six of the Kindlus electoral alliance, six of the Centrist group, three Social Democrats and one non-aligned deputy.
Eduard East had been mayor of Narva since 2013.